One other yr, one other home-grown AO champion to look ahead to | 23 January, 2025 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

For the 14th consecutive Australian Open, there might be no less than one native champion throughout the event’s varied occasions.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 23 January 2025 | Matt Trollope

That was confirmed on Wednesday, when Kimberly Birrell and John-Patrick Smith arrange an all-Australian blended doubles remaining towards Olivia Gadecki and John Friends.

The primary all-Aussie remaining within the Open-era historical past of the occasion – and the primary for the reason that 1967 Australian Championships – might be staged on Friday. It implies that for the 14th straight version of the event, an area title might be inscribed on no less than one AO trophy.

There could possibly be extra, given the continuing success of different Aussies throughout a number of AO occasions.

World No.1 junior Emerson Jones is into the women’ singles semifinals, in addition to the ultimate of the junior women’ doubles occasion with Brit Hannah Klugman, whereas Ben Wenzel is thru to the boys’ wheelchair doubles remaining.

With the introduction of the junior wheelchair division at Australian Open 2025, there at the moment are 19 formally sanctioned occasions staged throughout the 15 days of the primary draw at Melbourne Park:

• Males’s singles
• Ladies’s singles
• Males’s doubles
• Ladies’s doubles
• Combined doubles
• Boys’ singles
• Women’ singles
• Boys’ doubles
• Women’ doubles
• Males’s wheelchair singles
• Ladies’s wheelchair singles
• Quad wheelchair singles
• Males’s wheelchair doubles
• Ladies’s wheelchair doubles
• Quad wheelchair doubles
• Boys’ wheelchair singles
• Women’ wheelchair singles
• Boys’ wheelchair doubles
• Women’ wheelchair doubles

You need to return to AO 2011 to seek out the final time there have been no Australian champions in any of the occasions.

In 37 accomplished editions of the AO at Melbourne Park, there have been solely 4 different years – 1990, 2006, 2009 and 2010 – that didn’t characteristic no less than one Aussie winner.

Since 2011 we’ve had champions in boys’ singles, such because the just lately retired 2012 champion Luke Saville. We’ve seen Dylan Alcott dominate within the quad wheelchair division, each in singles and in doubles alongside Heath Davidson.

In 4 consecutive years (2013-16) there was an Australian champion in boys’ doubles, together with Alex de Minaur – who reached the AO 2025 males’s singles quarterfinals – alongside Blake Ellis.

In girls’s doubles, Sam Stosur hoisted the trophy with Zhang Shuai in 2019, whereas in 4 of the previous eight accomplished AOs, there’s been an Australian winner within the males’s doubles – together with three straight years from AO 2022 to 2024.

Most famously, Ash Barty turn out to be the ladies’s singles champion at Australian Open 2022 – the primary Aussie singles champion in 44 years.

Nick Kyrgios, the AO 2022 males’s doubles winner with Thanasi Kokkinakis, additionally received the boys’ singles in 2013, the identical yr Matthew Ebden – the AO 2024 males’s doubles champion – received the blended doubles with Jarmila Gajdosova.

Kyrgios and Ebden are amongst a choose group of Australians to win a couple of occasion at Melbourne Park.

But none have matched Todd Woodbridge’s feat of successful three totally different occasions for the reason that event relocated in 1988. Woodbridge is a six-time AO champion – twice in boys’ doubles (1988-89), as soon as in blended doubles (1993) and thrice in males’s doubles.

His 1992 and 1997 wins got here alongside Mark Woodforde, earlier than he was victorious once more in 2001 with Swede Jonas Bjorkman.

AUSTRALIAN AO CHAMPIONS (SINCE 1988)

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